Trees

By : Riley Lynne Crompton

Flowering Crab Apple

• Are popular trees closely related to apples, but with smaller edible fruit. They may also differ in leaf color, growth habit, flowering time or flower color.

• Are fairly drought tolerant. Also hey can be low maintenance and are versatile landscape plants, often with more than one season of interest.

• Are generally well adapted to Colorado soils and climate, but varieties or cultivars should be carefully selected for disease resistance and for higher elevations.

• Crabapple blossoms in April to May, depending on variety and elevation. Also some crabapple varieties bloom relatively early, others bloom mid-season and some bloom towards the end of crabapple season. 

Bayberry

• Bayberry, also known as wax myrtle, waxberry, or candelberry, is both a shrub and a tree. All members of the bayberry family are classified botanically as Myricaceae, and many varieties are found all over the world map.

• Myrica pensylvanica is a mainly deciduous shrub. It may hang on to some of its leaves during the winter, but in that case they will probably look ratty.

• While bayberry shrubs are delightful during the summer and autumn, they may be most valued for the novelty their gray berries afford to the winter.

Heavenly Bamboo

•  It is an erect shrub growing to 2 m’s tall.•   Nandina is considered invasive in North Carolina,

Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida • highly regarded in Texas as a native-adapted plant that

does not require a lot of water. • he flowers are white, borne in early summer in conical

clusters held well above the foliage. The fruit is a bright red berry, ripening in late autumn and often persisting through the winter.

• The glossy leaves are evergreen (sometimes deciduous in colder areas)

•  Nandina can take heat and cold

Daffodil

• a genus of mainly hardy, mostly spring-flowering, herbaceous perennials in the Amaryllis family, subfamily Amaryllidoideae.

• Their native range includes Europe, North Africa and West Asia. Their center of distribution is in the Western Mediterranean.

•  have a central bell-, bowl-, or disc-shaped corona surrounded by a ring of six floral leaves

• yellow to golden-yellow color all over •  Since the flower blooms in early spring, it has also

become a symbol of Chinese New Year

Sour(Black)Gum

• Likes Dry Sites, Salt, Wet Sites, Wind

• Native to: United States

• The culture of the sour black gum is full sun; moist, well drained soils; tolerates dry and wet sites; slightly acid soil.

• It has glossy green leaves that turn scarlet; regular horizontal branching is attractive in winter.

Japanese Spurge

• slow growing groundcover with alternate, simple leaves, and creeping stems. It is evergreen but the leaves may yellow in winter. It is very cold hardy.

• flowers are white, borne above the foliage. In temperate Northern Hemisphere sites they appear late in the month of March and throughout the month of April.

• The plant prefers a moist and well-drained soil, that is both acidic and rich.

Peony

• They are native to Asia, Southern Europe and Western North America. 

• Most are herbaceous perennial plants

• deeply lobed leaves, and large, often fragrant flowers, ranging from red to white or yellow, in late spring and early summer.